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Sunday, November 29th, 2009
Getting documents signed is often a time consuming and frustrating business. It can take weeks to get a signature from each party on a document. This is often how it plays out: one party prints two copies of a document, signs both of them with a handwritten signature and posts ...
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Thursday, August 14th, 2008
The ECT Act defines an electronic signature as data attached to, incorporated in, or logically associated with other data and which is intended by the user to serve as a signature. The ECT Act recognises the contractual freedom of parties to specify whether electronic signatures are required, and if so, ...
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Monday, August 11th, 2008
Many people are wondering when it will be possible to get and use an advanced electronic signature. An advanced electronic signature is basically an electronic signature that has been accredited. Why would you want one? You could use your advanced electronic signature to sign an electronic document ...
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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
The Labour Court (in Jafta v Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife (D204/07) [2008] ZALC 84 (1 July 2008)) has recently confirmed that you can conclude a contract by email and SMS. This is not really anything new. Since the Electronic Communications and Transactions Act ("ECT Act") came into effect it ...
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
On Wednesday 20 June 2007 the Minister of Communications published the Accreditation Regulations in terms of section 41, read with section 94 of the Electronic Communications and Transactions Act, 25 of 2002 (ECT Act). The Accreditation Authority (AA) is responsible for assessing and granting applications to have certain electronic signatures ...
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